Fandom High Welcome Picnic, Front Lawn of the School, All Day: Part II

[bigdamnprincipal]

There were plenty of tables and chairs scattered around the lawn for anyone who wanted to sit down once they'd had their fill of the buffet, or to recover from starting to find out what this place was all about. No one would judge the need to take a mental breather.

Some of the tables were out in the open, for those who weren't allergic to the sun, and some of the tables were in the shade, or far from the rest of the crowd. Wherever people decided to rest, there was space enough for everyone.

[OCD is up! This is the post for general mingling! Roommates, fake siblings and teachers are all here! Since it's outside, the picnic is open to all students, teachers, and townies!]

Comments

Re: Get Your Mingle On! [Summer 2013-1]

[whenshewasnice]

"Because you need more lighthearted hobbies."

Some understated snark, there.

Re: Get Your Mingle On! [Summer 2013-1]

[lockestheway]

"Hobbies are for bored teenage vagrants," Peter said.

Re: Get Your Mingle On! [Summer 2013-1]

[whenshewasnice]

Natalie considered exaggerating looking offended. Then chose not to. "You just called me a vagrant."

Re: Get Your Mingle On! [Summer 2013-1]

[lockestheway]

"Only if you choose to be offended by it," Peter noted idly. "Hobbies, essential life skills, it's a matter of semantics."

Re: Get Your Mingle On! [Summer 2013-1]

[whenshewasnice]

"There are no places that I know of where being able to play the piano is an essential life skill," Natalie retorted. But mildly. She didn't feel like emoting much today. "Even semantic stretches have their limits."

Re: Get Your Mingle On! [Summer 2013-1]

[lockestheway]

"Kid, that just means you aren't stretching hard enough," Peter said. "Or is it smart enough?"

If Peter was picking up on her being a little off, it was only on a subconscious level.

Re: Get Your Mingle On! [Summer 2013-1]

[whenshewasnice]

"In any case," Natalie replied, brushing her bangs away from her eyes with a few fingertips, "not an essential life skill. Although semantic acrobatics might count as one."

A topic she found fascinating in general. Just not maybe today.

"Did you just call me 'kid'?"

Re: Get Your Mingle On! [Summer 2013-1]

[lockestheway]

"Did I?" Peter asked.

Yes, he did.

Re: Get Your Mingle On! [Summer 2013-1]

[whenshewasnice]

"You did."

He had.

"Don't."

Re: Get Your Mingle On! [Summer 2013-1]

[lockestheway]

Peter heaved a put-upon sigh. "Fine, fine," he said, "Because you're asking so nicely."

Re: Get Your Mingle On! [Summer 2013-1]

[whenshewasnice]

"No one wants to be condescended at," she replied mildly. (As if there was any other way.) "Especially by people who are technically younger."

'Technically' because his line of work made it hard and weird to think of him as younger than her in any way.

Re: Get Your Mingle On! [Summer 2013-1]

[lockestheway]

"Who said anything about condescending?" asked Peter, who was pretty much always condescending anyway. "So. Spot anyone exciting at your penultimate newbie picnic?"

Re: Get Your Mingle On! [Summer 2013-1]

[whenshewasnice]

Natalie suddenly found herself rather sharply wanting to inform him how unlikely he was to spot condescension when it wasn't targeted at him. But that lasted all of a second, and told her everything she needed to know about her own mood.

She sighed before replying. "No. But it's a pretty small batch of newbies, too. You?"

Not counting Ender.

Re: Get Your Mingle On! [Summer 2013-1]

[lockestheway]

"Nothing terribly interesting outside of my brother and his hanger-on," Peter said, tapping his phone against his pants. "I'm disappointed, frankly. We didn't even get anyone who had a funny hair color or something."

Re: Get Your Mingle On! [Summer 2013-1]

[whenshewasnice]

"I'd dye my hair, but I'm not that committed to entertaining you." She was not at all committed to entertaining him. "Or conveying teenage angst through my hair, either."

Re: Get Your Mingle On! [Summer 2013-1]

[lockestheway]

"...Conveying angst through your hair?"

Yeah. Peter'd be side-eyeing you now.

Re: Get Your Mingle On! [Summer 2013-1]

[whenshewasnice]

"What?" she asked, barely raising an eyebrow at his side-eyeing. "I'm pretty sure that's a cliché thing."

Re: Get Your Mingle On! [Summer 2013-1]

[lockestheway]

Remember who you were talking to, Natalie.

"Is it?" he said. "I've never noticed."

Re: Get Your Mingle On! [Summer 2013-1]

[whenshewasnice]

Oh, right.

"Well, no, you wouldn't. But trust me on this one."

Re: Get Your Mingle On! [Summer 2013-1]

[lockestheway]

"I'll make a note to be terribly suspicious if someone on my staff starts dying their hair," Peter joked. "Thanks."

Re: Get Your Mingle On! [Summer 2013-1]

[whenshewasnice]

"Yeah, you do that," Natalie replied, wrapping a blonde strand or two around her fingers, and absently examining them.

She'd almost been a redhead, you know. "Of course if there happened to be a lot of teenage angst on your staff, you should probably reconsider your choices anyway."

Re: Get Your Mingle On! [Summer 2013-1]

[lockestheway]

"The opposite, actually," Peter said. "Most of the big up-and-comers are teenagers these days."

You know. Like him.

Re: Get Your Mingle On! [Summer 2013-1]

[whenshewasnice]

"And how many of them are prone to teen angst?" Natalie retorted. "Well, apart from your bouts of whining. But I think that might be a personality thing rather than age-related."

Re: Get Your Mingle On! [Summer 2013-1]

[lockestheway]

"Hey," Peter retorted. "I don't whine. Or at least when I do, it's never about anything unimportant."

He rolled his eyes. "Wait until you meet one of those clowns, you'll take that back." Bean.

Re: Get Your Mingle On! [Summer 2013-1]

[whenshewasnice]

"You definitely whine," Natalie told him. "And definitely even about unimportant things."